Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 14, Number 37, Vincennes, Knox County, 11 October 1823 — Page 4

Poetical.

FROM THE MONROE REPUBLICAN. THE DKDAUCHEK. (a parody.) Breath not a bitter curse on mc, When I am Diuxk: But let my name at that time ba Forgotten sunk. Let friendship's sacred tear Forever disappear. When I am drunk ! No he. ding balm apply, But let my body lie A fuddled chunk. Let not a single friend come near, When I am drunk ! To dn p in pity one warm tear. On my low trunk : Deep let the warning rest, In everv human breast For l;f has not a zest, Vhcn I am drunk: Yik- let my fate be writ Wife ca?t remember it, S!!u s ghM she's sunk! :ooo: THE LOvT.it CURED. Young Damon with a lover's stare, Iv.-ed Phillis o'r and o'er ; And sure said he, a form so fair, Was never seen before. Oh ! grant me but one lock of hair. To place it near my heart, Th it 1 may think m thee, my fair. And never from it put ! What female could withstand the shock ! The lovelv maid submits : Young Damon clipn'd the fav 'rite lock, And found it-' .Xits ! MI SCULL ANY.

4i. 1h aeldvn do our summer dreams give Of the afihnaehuiir ?:m.Vr." JULIA SELLERS.

'fections of her father. She saw' him only as a lover, the gayest.

fondest, handsomest of her suitors, and confident of possessing; his affection, she was ready to pledge her heart to him in all the faithfulness of youthful passion. But her father viewed the matter in a different light ; he saw him gay, but improvident and poor, therefore without the means of long in dulging his propensity; volatile and unthinking, therefore not likely to reform; and without those principles of virtue, from which alone a reform could he expected; he saw him found but he knew well that love in a mind like his, kindled arid blazed, and expired a bright, perhaps, but at best a tran sient flame lie refused k couu tenanee the suit, and the marriage rook place consequently without his knowledge The parent disowned his child he did not persecute, but he left her to the lot she had so venturously chosen. And without one kind farewell, or one blessing from a relative. Julia sailed with her husband to New Orleans.

Here Mr. Marvillc lor that was the name of the gentleman who

was now her husband, engaged in

business in a counting houe in the

heart of the city and the prospect of success was flattering, but the disasters anticipated by Mr. Sel

lers overtook him ii the end he

There is but one true medium gambled and lost bus all; he then in all thing, and in our frequent took to drink and abused the afwaodering fn m the path of wis feetionate girl, he baa made the d m. we are found now deviating partner of bis misfortunes.

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on one side, and now on tne orn- l imes grew ureary, auu ne was stutes of the Oarolinas and Virer. In friendship we sometimes Obliged to decamp in haste. He gjnKl jlc uas opposed by the err from a cold and selfish spirit, set out accordingly on foot for he 'Marquis de La Fayette with an which embitters our attempts at had no other means of travelling, inferior force. Hfs Ijordshin hav-

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ki innes ; and sometimes injure : nr an unarm town one nunureu

could save for six months, with a

small sum given her in charity, she was enabled to take a passage for herself, her husband and family. Mr Sellers, in Philadelphia, bad received a letter from his suf fering daughter one morning, in which she spoke of her expected embarkation the next day, and which gave also a concise but heart rending picture of her situation. Moved once more with affection he walked down to en

quire whether the vessel had come

in A schooner trom iNew (Ji

leans was sweeping up the river

and then she anchored. Mr. Scl

lers went on board walked into a mean looking cabin, and beheld

his disobedient child, stretched

out and gasping with overflowing

grief and misery on the corpse ol

her departed husband, while her

child? en cried aloud unheeded.

But let the scene close Julia

lived not many years in this world of suffering, and doubtless she is happy now. I wiU draw but one inference fiom the thread of this brief tae. It was the char aeter. not t e poverty of Marvillc that Julia' father object d to it was thi that accomplished her ruin. The instriiiMc worth of then is fixed by their characters alone. -Emporium.

From Thatcher's MT?arv Journal. A DiOSE iTHIt For snne m ntlis p cvious to the capture, of Cornwaliis and

while his a' mv was traversing: the

inr received a remtorcem- nt was

outvelves by an improper degree 1 miles from Xew Orleans, his lath- gl) confident of success against his ofnUaivy. In ambition wea-e.ful consort with three children opponent, that he unguardedh frequently found tempting ton j accompanied him all the way; to wmte in a letter, whicn'was after- . I I 1 ft 1 I

tar, soaring with too wild and sooin nim in sorrow, to animate wards intercepted, -the oov can

Headlong and precipitous a tugnt; ; mm io uesponueucy. aim iu cneer noj escape me; but he wa dis and again often shinishly reclin- j him under his fatigue; but he fail- appointed in hs sanguine expeca ini at the base of her proud pe led in getting business there when tions. Cornwall at one time de-tal. unmoved bv the influence: he arrived and at last the poor un- formed a plan t surprise the M u-

oi ner enticements; anu in love lonunaic lamny reiraruu me wea- quis. while on the same side of

we sometimes sacrifice too much ry way to New Orleans, in the James' river with himeif but the to obtain the object of our wishes, decline of Autumn. without shoes attempt was prev ented bv' the Inland not unfrequently forfeit our to their feet, or clothes sufficient lowing incident. The Marquis, peace of mind and happiness, by to shield them from the damp air . unapprised of the particular silua sacrificing our attachments un- of the evenings. i tion ol nis opponent, eonirived to necessarily. I After sufferings the most in-' send into his camp a sry to (7bPa cuts have often broken the tense they arrived at New Or- tain intelligence. A soldier, behe iris --f their children by tearing leans, but oh, bow changed from longing to New Jersey, by the them from the objects of their af what they were three years he- J name Tf Churles Morgan, generfections, and the heart oi both fore Fallen from competency ally calied C larley. agreed to un-

parents anu cniuiren nave neen io aosomte oeggary, tney weie j riertake this hazardous service-

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broken by imprudent matches, compelled to seek admission into

made contrary to pat cntal advice, the house of one who had been in I a matter so important as the better days their friend. It was marriage contract, the voice of granted, but there is something in the parent should most certainly t he world's most frequent chari have meat weight. I do not say ties which has a mixture of call, it should always be decisive, nei- and taste of bitterness. The wither on the other hand will I aver fortunate woman saw and felt that it never should be decisive. this. Her husband, even now I remember the unfortunate abandoned himself to the intoxi Julia Sellers a sweet girl, whose eating bowl, and every hope of hopes and prospect were of the his doing any thing to retiieve brightest, while the summer ol his situation gradually died a her youth endured. She has pas-, way sed to her final home; she passed I In the sickness of her heart, it to it through bitterness and tears was natural that most unfortu and left her example behind her nate of woman should think of as a warning to thers, who blest her far distant home, where plenwith youth and beauty, and en ty flowed, where once a father's joing all the happiness that smile illumined the board, and a wealth can give may be tempted mother's fondness soothed each to nuke a forfeit like that she little woe Some clouds indeed made, and he at last as unfortu had passed over that bright hea nate as she was. ven of her early peace, but what Among her suitors, for she had child would not rather seek foi mi iv wa a ga ami volatile giveness from a parent than char young man. wu -e vivacity, min ity from strangers She resolved g'ed wit i a per-uasive and insin to embark for Philadelphia, and

u ui og m finer, won her heart, having labored long and hard

but insisted that in case he should

be discovered and hanged, the Maiqws. to secure his reputation, siioind nave it inei tedinthe New Jersey paper, that he was employed in the -ervice of his com inander. Having reached the royal camp, he was soon introduced into his Lordship' presence, who enquired the reas n of his deser ting Charley replied, 'hat he "had been in the con! ? :t 'of nl

"three hours, my lord ' Hi Lordship exclaimed. uthreehours, it will take three days." "No. my lord" said Charley, -'the Iarquis has such a number of boats, and each boat will carry so many men; if you will please to calculate, you will find that he can pass in three hours." His lordship turning to the officers, said, 'the scheme will not do." After having obtained the information required, Morgan began to prepare for a return to the Marquis; he prevailed with several British soldiers to desert with him. When challenged by the centineis he artfully tampered with them by giving them rum. and while drinking he seized their arms and then compelled them to go. and this brave fellow actually brought off seven deserters to our cauip. On his return to bead quarters, the Mai quis accosted him with-Y eh Charle. have you got back?'' kYe please your Excellency,

and have hi ought seven men with me." TOUCH OF Till-: SUBLIME. A gentleman who keeps a ferry on the Potomac is fond of pompous language, and in his discourse so uniiiteligibly learned, i hat few people understand bis meaning. To the inquiry of a person af er his fathers health he ihswe d as fohnws; Sir. he intense frigidity of the eircumambtent atmospheie so congealed the pellu id aqueour fluid ol the majestic river Potom ic, that with the most eminent and superlatix e reluctance, I was constrained to procrastinate my premiditated egre?s into the palatine province of Ma viand, for the medical, chemical, and Galetijical coadjutancy and co operation of a distinguished sensitive son of ISscuieepius. until the peccant deleterious matter of the arthititis had pervaded the cranium, into which it had ascended and penetrated from the interior pedestrial major digit of my paternal reletive in consanguinity; whereby his morbosity was magnified so exorbitantly as to exhibit an absolute extinguishment of vivification ! Time. It is for young men to gather knowledge, old men to use it. and assure yourself that no man gives a fairei account of his time, than he that makes it his

I daily duty to make himself, bet

ter. THOUGHTS, Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man. I take it for granted there would be much generosity if he were a rich man.

A new work has lately been published in Baltimore, entitled Hill's Theorv of the Rartli lTr

vice from tne be-ioiii-. iuul while! Hill endeavors to prove in his under abnm-ton he U iis v eil ; woi k. tha' the delude was occa

sioned bv the rise of America

trom the ocean; and that this tre-

satihlied; but being now comm.ui

tied by a Frenchman he v as dis

plea ed witii it and had quitted ' mendous convulsion was brought thebervice" His lordship com i about by the agency of subterran-

fiies!

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What

Symm.es to this?

says Capt.

and yeiUlcd to conciliate uie at-(a.id trapped together all stieltuutiug u moment he replied,, the time of man ia-e.

conduct and Charley soon com menced ttie double duty bf a tidier under the English vomman dcr and a py in the employ ment ol the Marquis,, without suspicion Lord Cornwallis, while in con-

vti.auon with several of his ofli ininimnxi;,.(r .vltMn ip rJ ,;.,

, . ----- . - - - - vnij u v iiiv If lull I' cers, inquired o Charley, how j tilf The wife recommended

a inne it would take tor tne was sister in-law to the defendant, Mai quis to cross James' rivei; by whom .tie was pregnant at

WARRANTY OF A WIFE. A verdict of hO(K) pounds damages was reeenily rendered in

Dublin, in a suit for deceit in re-